Rain lashes in Delhi NCR on Sunday. (Express Photo by Gajendra Yadav)Delhi News Live Updates: The India Meterological Department has issued an orange alert for northwest, southwest, northeast and southeast Delhi NCR regions. The weather department has warned of light to moderate rainfall accompanied with light thunderstorm and lightning at few places of Delhi including Mahrauli, Chhattarpur, IGNOU, Ayanagar, Deramandi.
Delhi Haat fire compensation: The Delhi government will provide financial relief of Rs 5 lakh each to the 24 artisans whose stalls were gutted in the April 30 fire at Delhi Haat, Tourism Minister Kapil Mishra said on Monday. In addition to the financial aid, all affected artisans will be allotted stalls at Delhi Haat in INA free of cost for six months — from July 1 to December 31, Mishra said. The allotment will be made through a lottery system.
In other news, a 40-year-old man in Southwest Delhi allegedly stabbed his 10-year-old son to death with a kitchen knife in a fit of rage after he insisted on going out to play in the rain, said police. “The accused works as a labourer and lives in a single-room apartment with his four kids. The man’s wife died a few years ago, said officers. “A case under sections of murder has been registered, and the accused has been apprehended,” DCP Goel said.
The IMD has issued an orange alert for Northwest and Southwest Delhi NCR regions. As per the weather department, North-east Delhi and Southeast Delhi and NCR regions are under a yellow alert.
Residents in Gurgaon have called for the municipal corporation to promptly transfer sanitation duties to Residents’ Welfare Associations (RWAs) amid a rising garbage menace in the area. Despite a proposed agreement for RWAs to take over these responsibilities, no formal policy has been established, they said.
In a meeting on May 18, more than 60 RWAs in Gurgaon resolved to take over sanitation duties from the municipal corporation. The decision received in-principle approval from the previous municipal commissioner Ashok Garg, but the handover of sanitation duties has not commenced formally. A corporation official also confirmed that no policy in this regard has been finalised and notified yet, despite the civic body having accepted the handover of sanitation duties to RWAs.
Late on Friday night, a Mahindra pickup truck driving through Noida’s Sector 63 caught the attention of local police. Acting on a tip-off that the truck was carrying 14 quintals of adulterated paneer, a police team intercepted the vehicle. What they found inside unraveled an alleged interstate racket that had, for at least six months, been quietly pumping adulterated paneer into Delhi-NCR’s food markets.
The truck driver, Gulfam — a 32-year-old from Aligarh’s Shajapur village — was taken in for questioning. By morning, he led the police to a plant in Sahajpura village in the district, where the adulterated paneer was being produced. Here, the police arrested three more men: 36-year-old Guddu alias Rish, who was running the plant, and Ikhlaq (30) and Naved (20), who were the distributors.
The Delhi government will provide financial relief of Rs 5 lakh each to the 24 artisans whose stalls were gutted in the April 30 fire at Delhi Haat, Tourism Minister Kapil Mishra said on Monday.
In addition to the financial aid, all affected artisans will be allotted stalls at Delhi Haat in INA free of cost for six months — from July 1 to December 31, Mishra said.
The allotment will be made through a lottery system.
Delhi woke up to cool, breezy weather on Monday, a day after the India Meteorological Department (IMD) declared that the Southwest Monsoon has covered the whole country.
In a much-needed relief from the heat, the city recorded a temperature of 24 degrees Celsius with air quality remaining in the “satisfactory” category, with an AQI of 73, as per the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB).
Safdarjung, the city’s base observatory, recorded 14 mm rainfall in the 24 hours until 8.30 am on Monday.
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